Jesús de Cárdenas

Jesús de Cárdenas Duarte
1st President of the Republic of the Rio Grande
In office January 17, 1840 – November 6, 1840
Vice President	José María Jesús Carbajal
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	None
Governor of Tamaulipas
In office September 30, 1851 – November 19, 1852
Preceded by	Antonio Canales Rosillo
Succeeded by	Juan José de la Garza Cisneros

Jesús de Cárdenas was the Governor of Tamaulipas and the President of the Republic of the Rio Grande.

After Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas declared independence in October 1838 and formally organized their provisional government on January 18, 1839 with Jesús de Cárdenas as President, the January 28, 1839 supporters of the rebellion placed the flag of this republic in the town square of Guerrero, Tamaulipas and every man went under the banner of the proclaimed Republic of the Rio Grande to kiss the flag as a sign of loyalty. And after a campaign by the inner federalist entities Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, their leaders agreed to hold a convention in Laredo, Texas on January 17, 1840, which declared independence from Mexico and established provisionally the capital of the Republic of the Rio Grande in Laredo, Texas. The Republic of Rio Grande claimed as its territory the areas of Tamaulipas and Coahuila to the north until the Nueces river and Medina respectively, and all the states of Zacatecas, Durango, Chihuahua and Nuevo México, among those present were appointed official representatives of the Republic of the Rio Grande.

Currently in Laredo, Texas is a small museum about the "Republic of the Rio Grande" in the Plaza Zaragoza, one block away from the border with Mexico. The museum is located approximately where the seat of government of the Republic was located, and includes the display of a replica of the flag that flew there, it being assumed that the original flag was probably captured by the centralist Mexican Army, and perhaps it is in the Museum Chapultepec.

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